Topical 4: Sustainable Biorefineries

Session 450 - Sustainable Biorefineries Plenary Session (Invited Papers)
Visionary talks (invited) will outline commercial, governmental, or academic efforts to advance multi-product biorefineries. Topics likely to be addressed include: development or improvement -- including conceptual analysis and life cycle assessments -- of renewable feedstocks-based multiproduct biorefineries, i.e., based on starch or oil crops and/or lignocellulosic biomass; development of enabling catalytic and/or separative processes; discovery or development of enabling enzyme or fermentative/microbial technologies or bio-based materials.
Chair: Bruce S. Dien
CoChair: David N. Thompson
CoSponsor(s): Bioengineering
Forest and Plant Bioproducts Division
Sustainable Engineering Forum
  Bioenergy Conversion and Science – Challenges in Making Cellulosic Fuels
Brian H. Davison
  An Investor Perspective on Biofuels Commercialization and the Developing Bioeconomy
Douglas C. Cameron
  Biofuels: Unlocking the Potential
Joseph Kocal, Jennifer Holmgren
  Poet's Vision for the Future of Biorefining
Jason Kwiatkowski, David Carlson
  Process Engineering of Renewable Resources for Ethanol Production
Michael Ladisch

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